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Welcome to the March 2024 Mental Capacity Report.  Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of… Read more

March 2024 contains three ten year anniversaries.   One is national – indeed international – significance; one is of national significance,… Read more

In light of the publication of the Westminster Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee’s (very good) report on assisted dying… Read more

If you have been found by a criminal court that you did not know what you were doing was wrong… Read more

In Re RM Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2024] UKSC 7, the provisions of the Mental Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 came… Read more

In Aberdeenshire Council v SF (No 2) [2024] EWCOP 10, Poole J took the very unusual step of declining to… Read more

A revised COP44A Help with fees application, and COP44B guidance notes have been published and are to be used with… Read more

Poole J is rapidly becoming the specialist sexual capacity judge at the Court of Protection.   Following his decisions in Hull… Read more

Re DY [2024] EWCOP 4 is a case showing how demanding taking capacity seriously is  – and should be.  It… Read more

This is a post co-written by Tor Butler-Cole KC and I, prompted by the decision in GUP v EUP and… Read more